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New PC BIOS Problem

OhDiscorida

Posted 20 August 2005 - 09:24 PM

OhDiscorida

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Hey!

Newly built PC's BIOS will not read past the CPU. The power works and the HD spins and the CD-ROMs light up but the BIOS will not go anywhere.

The Keyboard will also not work when I try to press DEL or ESC to go to setup. I have reset the BIOS try many keyboards and checked all the cable connections. I am using a ECS nForce4 A939 mobo with a AMD 64 3200+ CPU. :-\ at a loss for where to go next. I have tried moving the 2 RAM sticks around and using only 1 to no avail.

Samm

Posted 24 August 2005 - 04:40 PM

You said the 'bios will go past the cpu' - do you mean it stops after cpu detection but before the memory count/check has performed?

If so, I suggest test the system with just one ram module in place in slot 1.

If this doesn't help, then remove the sound card & any other pci cards, leaving only the video. Also disconnect all drive cabling (hard drive/CD/floppy) from the motherboard. Disconnect the main ATX power connector form the board & clear the bios using the jumper for at least 10 seconds.

Reconnect the atx power connector & make sure you have the 4 pin atx square power connector plugged in.
Power up the system again with only the cpu & hs/fan, one stick of ram, video & keyboard connected. If this still doesn't work then swap the ram module for the other one.